The European Parliament (EP) has suffered fresh criticism over its handling of the Enfopol 98 resolution, which was passed last week. The resolution, although not legally binding, allows individual member states to award law enforcement agencies...
The EU is on the brink of reaching an agreement with the US in the debate over data protection. A voluntary set of rules, concerning the treatment of data, to which US firms can pledge their allegiance is gaining ground in both the US and European...
Microsoft and the Justice Department have reached an agreement that could see a resolution to the anti-trust case well ahead of the original schedule. Microsoft will now file its appeal to Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling before a 26 July...
The judge presiding over the Microsoft anti-trust trials has offered the company and the Department of Justice an extra four days to submit a joint report outlining possible solutions to the case. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly agreed to extend the...
A new internet complaints resolution service from the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) was given the nod in principle from telecoms regulator Oftel yesterday. David Edmonds, director general of telecommunications, praised the...
From next January, mobile users will be able to turn their handsets into portable ATMs - except for using them to make cash withdrawals. Two UK banks and four mobile operators, including Vodafone, will launch the new service early next month.